The longest rail tunnel in the world opened last week with a weird ceremony accused by some of being ‘demonic’.
World leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi attended the opening of the Gotthard Base tunnel which cuts a direct route to Italy under the Alps.
There are several videos around showing robotic and slightly under-rehearsed (or perhaps it was meant to be out-of-sync) dancers clad in Orange work-style jump suits shuffling in to a lone drummer before going outside, stripping down to their underwear and rolling down a slope to the accompaniment of Alpenhorns.
Quite what all that signified, only German director and choreographer Volker Hesse would know.
Yes, I understood the five dancers lying on the floor in their orange uniforms to refer to the five who died in the tunnel’s construction. Just what the bare-breasted woman with wings and a bird’s head was doing floating down from the ceiling above them, escaped me. She was, however, popular with some of the top-level audience, who stirred their video-phones into action.
Equally popular was the simulated lesbian groping which formed part of a float of scantily-clad gyrating dancers, appearing to have lost their way from some gay pride parade. Someone hit part of a railway wagon with chains. As you do.
Perhaps the strangest part of the ceremony involved a man dressed like nothing half so much as a goat-god. The grass-clad dancers bowed down to him. It is this apparently demonic element which has most concerned some Christian commentators.
Austin Ruse on the Breitbart website, under the headline ‘Stupid, not satanic’, was keen to explain that the Swiss trot out a lot of this weirdness at Christmas. Apparently they love dressing up as mountain goats or trolls and scaring the children. That makes it just fine, then.
The closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics laid itself open to similar accusations of satanic role-plays. There were people worshiping a pyramid, a nod to a one-world global vision and a phoenix rising from the flames. The dancers bowed down to that as well. It was all very ‘New World Order’.
Are the directors of these events briefed to provide something to please the global elite? Or do they produce all the occult symbolism out of their own heads? No doubt the new rail tunnel will cut several minutes off the Swiss north-south route. This author might well be inclined still to take the scenic route.
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Goat-gods are always depicted with occult symbols about their person, and there is a twist in the horns. This looks to me like a man dressed in the skin of a mouflon or an ibex, taking the part of a mouflon or ibex.
This is nothing more than pretentious dance drama, very similar to what we saw in the Millennium Dome, or even (shockingly in 1913) in the Rite of Spring. It is supposed to depict local folk tales, along with the drama of the tunnelling. No doubt , in its way, it does.
The mouflon (wild sheep) or whatever he is is no more sinister than the fox in The Tales of Beatrix Potter ballet. He doesn’t scare me, anyway. Satanic symbolism is in the eye of the beholder.